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CORAL GABLES -- Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan will teach a two-month seminar at the University of Miami Law School. Brennan, 84, will instruct 10 handpicked students in a class that will emphasize the Bill of Rights, Dean Mary Doyle said on Friday. The course will start on Thursday, she said. Brennan, who retired six months ago after 34 years on the nation`s high court, lectured at the law school in 1989 and 1990. Three constitutional scholars, Lawrence H. Tribe and Frank I. Michelman of Harvard Law School and Owen M. Fiss of Yale Law School, also will participate.

I read of Frank Schnidman`s intent to resign as the Executive Director of Fort Lauderdale`s Downtown Development Authority due to what sounded like internal conflicts. This is truly a shame after what Schnidman has accomplished for the city, which is trying to complete a turnaround of its image and take on a global reputation as a world class city. Schnidman is a Harvard Law School graduate who has a very fine reputation among leaders of many countries in Southeast Asia, and Eastern Europe for his presentations to them on advanced city planning methods and techniques that have had important changes within those countries.

Jose Garcia-Pedrosa, fired three times as Miami city manager by Mayor Joe Carollo, has landed a partnership with a major downtown law firm. Garcia-Pedrosa, a Harvard College and Harvard Law School graduate, will specialize in civil litigation with Ruden, McClosky, Smith, Schuster & Russell in its Brickell Avenue office. Garcia-Pedrosa, 55, was appointed as city manager in December by former Mayor Xavier Suarez, who was forced from office following a vote-fraud trial that ended in March.

Vern Countryman, a retired professor at Harvard Law School who was a specialist in commercial and bankruptcy law, died on May 2 in Mt. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Mass. He was 81. "Professor Countryman reshaped commercial law in a more complex, humane image," Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren said on Monday. A native of Roundup, Mont., Mr. Countryman graduated from the University of Washington and its law school. He was an attorney for the National Labor Relations Board in Seattle before becoming a clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas in 1942 and 1943.

Services will be today for Harwood Rydholm of Plantation, a retired Chrysler Corp. executive who was instrumental in the company`s financial bailout in 1980. Mr. Rydholm, 65, who died on Thursday, was vice president of civic affairs for Chrysler. He played a key role in the company`s negotiations with local and state governments to obtain $250 million that had been required for federal support for Chrysler under the Loan Guarantee Act. Fortune magazine called Mr. Rydholm "the company`s Metternich in these complicated negotiations ... the chief strategist."

* CANDIDATE'S STATEMENT: Florida's teachers endorse my candidacy because strong and effective public schools are essential to prepare children for the 21st century. These schools have small class sizes with a textbook for each child in a safe, disciplined and technologically current learning environment; have qualified teachers and students who are expected and helped to meet high standards of academic achievement; and are places where the values of hard work, integrity, respect and tolerance are taught and rewarded.

James S. Vorenberg, the former Harvard Law School dean, longtime law professor and associate Watergate prosecutor who helped organize the legal team that took on the Nixon administration, died Wednesday after a massive heart attack. He was 73. Professor Vorenberg, an overachiever even in circles filled with such people, was a tall, lean criminal law expert whose occasionally unconventional views drew praise even if they raised eyebrows. But whether advocating legalized prostitution, as he did in a 1976 article, or creating a new holistic vision of the justice system, as he did while director of President Lyndon Johnson's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice, Professor . Vorenberg's weaving of the theoretical and practical usually astonished his peers.

Here are some people being mentioned as possible replacements for Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court Elena Kagan, 49, United States solicitor general Background: A former dean of Harvard Law School and a former Supreme Court clerk for Justice Thurgood Marshall. Worked in the administration of President Bill Clinton-who tried unsuccessfully to nominate her to a federal judgeship-and, like President Barack Obama, once taught at the University of Chicago law school. Diane Wood, 58, judge, 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago Background: Longtime University of Chicago law professor who worked for President Ronald Reagan and Clinton in the Justice Department and President Jimmy Carter in the State Department.

Bethuel M. Webster, the founder of an influential New York City law firm and a champion of the public`s right to the airways, died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 88. Born in Denver, Mr. Webster graduated from the University of Colorado and Harvard Law School. He was an assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1926 to 1927 and a special assistant to the United States attorney general in the antitrust division of the Department of Justice from 1927 to 1929.

Federation to host dinner Ofer Bavly, Israel consul general for Florida and Puerto Rico will speak at the Jewish Federation of Broward County's Silver Circle Awards Dinner at 5 p.m., Dec. 18. The event will be at the Woodlands Country Club, 4600 Woodlands Blvd., Tamarac. Tickets are $75 and are not tax-deductible. Four couples and three individuals will be honored. Piano prodigy to perform Child prodigy Ethan Bortnick, 7-year-old pianist, composer and entertainer, will perform at 7 p.m. Dec. 28 at the South Florida Hanukkah Festival.